ΚΑΤΗΠΕΙΓΕΝ, κατηπειγεν
KATĒPEIGEN, katēpeigen
Sounds Like: kah-tee-PEI-gen
Translations: was urging, was pressing, was hastening, was compelling
From the root: ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of urging someone or something on, pressing forward, or hastening. It implies a sense of urgency or compulsion. It is often used to describe someone who is making haste or causing others to make haste, or compelling them to do something. It is a compound word formed from the preposition κατά (kata, 'down, against, according to') and the verb ἐπείγω (epeigō, 'to hasten, urge on').
Inflection: Imperfect, Indicative, Active, Third Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G2724 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΕΙ — it urges, it presses, it is urgent, it is pressing, it is necessary, it is important
- ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΕΙΝ — to be urgent, to press hard, to be necessary, to be pressing, to be imperative
- ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΟΙ — it is urgent, it presses, it hastens, it is necessary
- ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΟΝΤΟΣ — urgent, pressing, necessary, of urgency, of necessity
- ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΟΥΣΗΣ — urgent, pressing, a pressing, an urgent
- ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΩ — to press, to urge, to compel, to hasten, to be urgent, to be in a hurry
- ΚΑΤΕΠΕΙΓΩΝ — urgent, pressing, compelling, hastening, being urgent, being pressing, being compelling, being hastened
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